Who Did You Marry? [Emotionally Healthy Marriage 1 of 5]

Famous at Home

Josh + Christi Straub

Parenting, Relationships, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Kids & Family

4.9 • 653 Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to episode 1 of 5 in our Summer Series called, Cultivating an Emotionally Healthy Marriage.

Have you and your spouse ever looked at each other and wondered, "Who did we marry?" Lewis Smedes once said, "My wife has lived with at least five different men since we were wed—and each of the five has been me." It's amazing how much we change: sometimes for the worse, sometimes for the better.

In this episode, Josh and Christi talk about the various "seasons" we go through as individuals and how those "seasons" influence our marriage. They also talk about practical ways to enter into your spouse's world in the good, bad, and ugly.

They talk about:

How to prioritize what's going on within your spouse's heart more than what's going on between the two of you
Ways to empathetically step into your spouse's world
Practical ways to dream with your spouse and offer affirmation

We hope you download the pdf files that go along with these episodes (found in show notes below) and use them in your small groups, with your spouse, or as a companion guide to the content.

Show Notes:

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Time stamps:
(0:43) Introduction
(4:10) The versions of Josh that Christi has been married to
(7:57) The single most important decision we make in this life
(8:50) How we regulate each other in marriage to get healthy
(11:35) The only way you’re going to help your spouse grow
(14:30) An example of how to honor your spouse and change yourself
(18:40) How our faith influences how we treat our spouse
(20:32) Another example of honoring your spouse
(22:41) How to affirm and receive affirmations from your spouse
(24:29) Embracing curiosity, mystery, and dreaming together
(28:24) Navigating the seasons of marriage
(31:15) Subscribe to weekly devotional
(32:00) Practical exercise for moving forward together
(34:55) Getting to the “why” of the interest in the other person

Transcript

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0:00.0	The fresh love is one thing. It's beautiful and it's naive and it's precious. But there's a richness and then there's an oil that comes that only comes through crushing. Like that anointing oil that comes only when a life is crushed. That's what happens. The more we are put together and the longer we are. And you can't forget that any other way.
0:22.8	So it's costly, but that means it's priceless.
0:27.2	You are listening to the Famous At Home podcast with Dr. Josh and Christy Straub.
0:33.0	Because when it's all said and done, we all want to know that we were famous at home.
0:41.7	Welcome back to the Famous Had On Podcast.
0:43.7	Today, we are starting a brand new summer series.
0:46.2	This is our second series.
0:47.9	This one is called cultivating an emotionally healthy marriage.
0:51.0	So if you are in a season of your life where marriage is important to you,
0:55.3	you're growing in your marriage, you want to go deeper, more connected with one another,
0:58.6	this is a series you won't want to miss. It is in cultivating an emotionally healthy marriage.
1:03.2	We're also, I just want to remind everybody in these series, what we're doing is we have a
1:07.8	PDF download, a little workbook that you can work through with a small group,
1:12.4	your spouse. This one would be a really good one to go through with your spouse. It has discussion
1:17.5	questions and then just some notes that you're able to take, some prayers, and the ability to take
1:23.0	some takeaways, take some notes on takeaways that you have. We just genuinely believe that
1:27.0	when we do this in community together with one another, you actually grow more significantly than just listening to it on your own. And so be able to engage these conversations with one another. Today's episode specifically is called, Who Did You Marry? Who Did You Marry? Christy and I just celebrated our 14th wedding
1:45.1	anniversary two weeks ago. And what was fascinating about this is, as we look back, we were talking
1:51.1	about who were we when we got married? Like, you look back and you go, I don't even know
1:56.4	who I was, let alone Christy even knowing who I was.
2:02.3	But I think that's the beauty of God is we grow together in marriage.
2:05.6	You grow together.
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